Bangladesh Govt.! Release the Writers/Bloggers/Activists

Freedom of expression is everybody's birth right. 

Recently in Bangladesh the ruling party, along with other ultra-religious miscreants, is killing this freedom of expression in the name of "hurting religious sentiments" and on the ground of blasphemy. 

We, the whole democratic and secular world, condemn this - and ask Bangladesh Government to stop this immediately and release those writers/bloggers who just expressed their views on something traditionally considered sensitive in nature. This is a threat to freethinking, this is a Threat to humanity, this is a Threat to the overall prosperity of a nation and the whole world.

Please sign this AVAAZ.ORG petition to the Government of Bangladesh to release Writers/Bloggers/Activists

Friday December 17, 2010; I just can't quit you Julian.

I consider this a win for the atheist movement (if there is such a thing). The Quebec Government has banned all religious teachings in any subsidized daycare facilities. There are about 100 such daycare facilities in the province. Religious displays such as menorahs would be allowed under the law which takes effect in June 2011. 

Julian Assange is free on bail from a UK jail and staying at a rich friends country manor. Which reminds me; I have a rich friend with a country manor and I must go visit soon!

Canada’s prostitution laws unconstitutional, court rules

A Toronto judge has struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, effectively decriminalizing activities associated with the world’s oldest trade.

“These laws, individually and together, force prostitutes to choose between their liberty interest and their right to security of the person as protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Justice Susan Himel of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice said in Tuesday’s landmark decision.

The long-awaited judgment had been on reserve for nearly a year.

Himel said that while she has concluded the laws amount to a serious violation of the Charter, she has imposed a 30-day “stay” on her decision to give lawyers for the federal and provincial governments, as well as the women at the centre of the case, an opportunity to make fuller submissions on whether her decision to invalidate the laws should be placed on hold for an even longer period of time.